82 FR 61019 - Agenda and Notice of Public Meeting of the Moving to Work Research Advisory Committee

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 246 (December 26, 2017)

This notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda for a meeting of the Moving to Work (MTW) Research Advisory Committee (Committee). The Committee meeting will be held via conference call on Thursday, January 25, 2018. The meeting is open to the public and is accessible to individuals with disabilities.

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 246 (Tuesday, December 26, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61019-61020]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-27766]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-5932-N-07]


Agenda and Notice of Public Meeting of the Moving to Work 
Research Advisory Committee

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian 
Housing, and Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development 
and Research, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of a federal advisory committee meeting.

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SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda for a 
meeting of the Moving to Work (MTW) Research Advisory Committee 
(Committee). The Committee meeting will be held via conference call on 
Thursday, January 25, 2018. The meeting is open to the public and is 
accessible to individuals with disabilities.

DATES: The teleconference meeting will be held on January 25, 2018 from 
1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eva Fontheim, Office of Public and 
Indian Housing, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th 
Street SW, Room 4130, Washington, DC 20410, telephone (202) 402-3461 
(this is not a toll-free number). Persons who have difficulty hearing 
or speaking may access this number via TTY by calling the toll-free 
Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339 or can email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of this meeting is provided in 
accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 
10(a)(2). The Committee was established on May 2, 2016, to advise HUD 
on specific policy proposals and methods of research and evaluation 
related to the expansion of the MTW demonstration to an additional 100 
Public Housing Authorities (PHAs). See 81 FR 24630. On July 26 and 28, 
2016, HUD convened two conference call meetings of the Committee, a 
two-day in-person meeting on September 1 and 2, 2016, followed up by 
conference call meeting on December 13, 2016. The minutes of these 
meetings are available on the HUD website at: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/ph/mtw/expansion.
    HUD is now convening a 2.5-hour conference call to explore the 
possibility of adding an additional cohort policy study. HUD will 
convene the meeting on Thursday, January 25, 2018 via teleconference 
from 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. (EST). The agenda for the meeting is as 
follows:

Thursday, January 25, 2018, From 1-3:30 p.m. EST

I. Welcome and Introductions
II. Summary of July, September, December Meetings
    a. Revisit Guiding Principles
    b. Confirm Committee Recommendations
III. Goal for this Meeting
    a. Discuss and provide recommendations on whether HUD should study 
through the MTW expansion, the appropriate amount of Federal subsidy in 
the tenant-based program that balances both the impact on assisted 
families/housing quality, and the cost to Federal taxpayers
    b. Revisit Rent Reform Cohort Recommendation
IV. Policy Framework and Research Methodology--MTW Statutory Objective 
#1: Reduce Cost and Achieve Greater Cost-Effectiveness in Federal 
Expenditures
    a. Appropriate Federal subsidy in the tenant-based program
V. BREAK
VI. Revisit Rent Reform Cohort Recommendation
VII. Update on the MTW Expansion
VIII. Public Input
IX. Summary of Discussion
X. Discuss Next Steps and Adjourn

    The public is invited to call-in to the meeting by using the 
following Conference Toll-Free Number in the United States: 1-800-230-
1059 or the following International number for those outside the United 
States: (612) 234-9960. Please be advised that the operator will ask 
callers to provide their names and their organizational affiliations 
(if any) prior to placing callers into the conference line. Callers can 
expect to incur charges for calls they initiate over wireless lines and 
for international calls, and HUD will not refund any incurred charges. 
Callers will incur no charge for calls they initiate over land-line 
connections to the toll-free phone number. Persons with hearing 
impairments may also follow the discussion by first calling the Federal 
Relay Service (FRS) at 1-800-877-8339 and providing the FRS operator 
with the Conference Call Toll-Free Number: 1-800-230-1059.
    Members of the public will have an opportunity to provide feedback 
during the call. The total amount of time for such feedback will be 
limited to ensure pertinent Committee business is completed. Further, 
the amount of time allotted to each individual commenter will be 
limited and will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis by 
HUD. If the number of commenters exceeds the available time, HUD may 
ask for the submission of comments via email.
    Records and documents discussed during the meeting, as well as 
other information about the work of this Committee, will be available 
for public viewing as they become available at: http://www.facadatabase.gov/committee/committee.aspx?t=c&cid=2570&aid=77 by 
clicking on the ``Committee Meetings'' link. These materials will also 
be available on the MTW Demonstration's expansion web page at: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/ph/mtw/expansion. Records generated from 
this meeting may also be inspected and reproduced at the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development Headquarters in Washington, DC, as they 
become available, both before and after the meeting.
    Outside of the work of this Committee, information about HUD's 
broader implementation of the MTW expansion, as well as additional 
opportunities for public input, can be

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found on the MTW Demonstration's expansion web page at: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/ph/mtw/expansion.

    Dated: December 14, 2017.
Dominique Blom,
General Deputy Assistant, Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.
Todd Richardson,
Acting General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and 
Research.
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